Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh.
Genesis 2:24
"WENTWORTH, N.C. - At least six North Carolina magistrates have given up their jobs rather than be forced to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies.
John Kallam, who worked as a magistrate in rural Rockingham county for over a decade, is one of them.
During that time he watched the growing momentum of gay marriage closely and wondered what it might mean for him.
"I told some of my co-workers, 'if it ever gets down to that, where I'm asked to perform same-sex marriage, I'm not going to be able to do it,'" Kallam told CBN News.
That moment happened last month when a federal judge struck down North Carolina's marriage amendment. The following work day, Kallam told his supervisor he was unable to perform a gay
marriage ceremony because of his personal convictions.
He offered to work the midnight shift to avoid the issue. The next day the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts in Raleigh issued a memo stating that no accommodation could be made for the religious beliefs of magistrates who oppose same-sex marriage.
Kallam remembers how he found out.
"I showed up at 4 o'clock ready for my shift," he recalled. "There was no discussion. It was just two judges re-iterating what the administrative courts had said. This is now the law. We're here to uphold the law. Therefore you will do it."
Kallam said he felt he had no choice.
"You know Genesis 2:24 is pretty clear about marriage being instituted by God and between a man and a woman, so I couldn't in good faith do that," he said." CBN
Did U notice?....the government would NOT grant any accommodation for religious beliefs, even when he offered to work the midnight shift.....
